θηριώδης

English (LSJ)

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   A full of wild beasts, infested by them, of countries, ἡ θ. Αιβύη Hdt.4.181; ὄρεα -έστατα Id.1.110; ἐν τῇ θ. [χώρῃ] Id.4.174, cf. 2.32; -εστάτης ἐούσης τῆς θαλάσσης ταύτης full of ravenous fishes, Id.6.44.    II of beasts, savage, Arist.PA663a13; ἐπὶ τὸ -έστερον Id.HA502b4; τὸ θ., of a colt, E.Tr.671.    2 of men and manners, brutal, δίαιτα Hp.VM3; [βίοτος] E.Supp.202, cf.SIG704E11 (Delph., ii B.C.); ἡδονή Pl.R.591c; βρίμωσις Phld.Ir.p.58W.; κατάστασις OGI424.3 (Palestine, i A.D.); ὁ θ. ἐν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις σπάνιος Arist.EN 1145a30; οἱ Αάκωνες . . θηριώδεις ἀπεργάζονται [τοὺς παῖδας] Id.Pol. 1338b12; ἡ θ. ἕξις Id.EN1145a24: Comp. -έστερος, ἄνθρωπος Plb.30.12.3; τὸ θ. brutality, Pl.Cra.394e, al. Adv. -ωδῶς, διακεῖσθαι πρὸς ὰλλήλους Isoc.11.25, cf. Plb.15.20.3.    3 ζῴδια θ.,= θηριόμορφα, Ptol.Tetr.200.    III Medic., malignant, of ulcers, Phld.Ir.p.44W., Dsc.2.108, Plu.2.165e, Aret.SA2.8; also of intestinal worms, Hp. Epid.6.1.11, 6.2.11.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1210] ες, thierisch; – a) voll wilder Thiere, Λιβύη Her. 4, 181, οὔρεα θηριωδέστατα 1, 110, vom Meere 6, 44, θῖνες Plut. Thes. 1. – b) nach Art der Thiere, βίοτος Eur. Suppl. 202; τὸ θηριῶδες τῆς φύσεως Plat. Crat. 394 e, öfter; θηριῶδες καὶ κυνικὸν δοκεῖ εἶναι Xen. Cyr. 5, 2, 17; καὶ ἄγριον Luc. Pseudol. 31; vgl. Arist. Eth. 7, 1. – Bei den Aerzten, bösartig, von Geschwüren. – Adv., θηριωδῶς ζῆν, διακεῖσθαι πρὸς ἀλλήλους, Isocr. 3, 6. 4, 28.